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Architettura ciuile demostratiuamente proportionata et accresciuta di nuoue regole : con l'vso delle quali si facilita l'inuentione d'ogni douuta proportione nelli cinque ordini, e col ritrouamento d'vn nuouo strumento angolare ...

by: Osio, Carlo Cesare, 1612-

Publication date: 1661

Topics: Architecture, Architecture -- Early works to 1800, Architecture -- Orders -- Early works to 1800, Architecture -- Orders

Publisher: In Milano : Nella Stampa archiepiscopale

Collection: getty; americana

Contributor: Getty Research Institute

Language: Italian

Item Size: 574.6M

Engraved frontispiece, port. of author by G.B. Bonacina after Cesare Fiori. Engraved in-text ill. of the 5 orders. Numerous woodcut in-text diagrams, the blank spaces of which are filled with fleurons, arabesques, or other small ornaments. Grotesque and floriated initials, tail-pieces

Signatures: + A-3D 3E

Includes index

Binding: coarse gray paper, the top and bottom covers stained yellow

Printed label of Ingegnere I. Stagnoli, legato Quarantini. Giovanni Muzio's bookplate, etched by Giacomo Manzù

[12], 406, [6] pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : 35 cm (fol.)

Illustrations: 7 full-page engravings, comprising allegorical front., port. of the author by G.B. Bonacina after Cesare Fiori and depictions of the 5 orders; numerous diagrams, usually accompanied by large fleurons or small ornamental woodcuts; grotesque and floriated initials

Binding, contemporary, of vellum over boards